Actually, the US has NOT been in debt every since its inception. Late 1800's we were out of debt. Going into WWI we were in a little bit of debt, then it rocketed. It came back down close to no debt until WWII. Then rocketed again.

__________________Don't do anything by half. If you love someone, love them with all your soul. When you go to work, work your ass off. When you hate someone, hate them until it hurts.

I believe that today more than ever a book should be sought after even if it has only one great page in it. We must search for fragments, splinters, toenails, anything that has ore in it, anything that is capable of resuscitating the body and the soul.

I saw the keyes response when he first did it. He is a pathetic joke. No one takes his words seriously. I know that it "wasn't your words" but you placed this out for people to see. Yes I did vote for Obama. If you remember, Keyes was brought in to run against him for senator. He was resoundingly defeated. He has never won anything and is about as far out on the fringe as can be.
As for broken promises, yes there have been some. No politician can keep every one he makes. But amazingly, he has kept many that he made. I wish I could remember the source, but it showed that he had kept or put forward legislation to keep quite a few. As for being scared, shrugs, I'm not. What scared me was a president that was stuck on stupid. I don't agree with everything he is pushing, but I am willing to give him a try. With Bush I had a dream the night after he was elected, I woke the next morning and told my wife we were going to war. Guess what? We did.
I can deal with a person that communicates with me like I have a brain. That doesn't say if I disagree I am not a patriot. I served in the Air Force for 16.5 years. Some things won't work, but at least something is being tried. So I will wait and cast my judgment after a suitable period passes.

Yeah, Alan Keyes is a bit of a nut. While he does make a salient point or two, he's generally steeped in so much fringy weirdness that he impeaches his own overall credibility.

It's like the far religious right making arguments against stem cells: Just because they are wrong about many things (i.e. Creationism vs Evolution), it doesn't mean they are NEVER right...it just makes it harder for them to score points because of their past track history.